Villanova University Men's Basketball

In his first season as the William B. Finneran Endowed Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Villanova University Kevin Willard directed the Wildcats back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022. Willard has now led three different programs to the NCAA Tournament - Seton Hall, Maryland, and Villanova - in eight appearances in college basketball’s signature event. The Wildcats’ 24 victories in 2025-26 are the most by a first-year head coach in program history. Willard came to Villanova in March 2025 after guiding the University of Maryland to 27 victories and an NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 appearance.   "Coach Willard quickly stood out among an impressive pool of candidates during a comprehensive national search," said Villanova University President Rev. Peter M. Donohue, OSA. "Throughout the process, Coach Willard demonstrated that he has the vision and experience to guide Villanova Basketball in the changing world of college athletics. Beyond his notable success on the court, we were also impressed by his ability to articulate how Villanova Basketball fits into the overarching mission of the University."   Willard led the Terrapins to 65 victories in three seasons in College Park, including a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. In 2024-25, he was named the NABC East District Coach of the Year. In his first season at the helm (2022-23), he led the Terps to a 22-13 record, a Top 25 national ranking, and a Second Round NCAA Tournament appearance.   "Coach Willard is an outstanding leader of young men and brings extensive experience and success as a head coach to Villanova," said Villanova Vice President and Director of Athletics Eric Roedl. "We are excited about the future of Villanova Basketball under his leadership, and look forward to welcoming Coach, his wife Julie, and their sons—Colin and Chase—to the Villanova community."   Prior to his tenure at Maryland, Willard coached for 12 seasons at Seton Hall, winning 225 games, including the 2016 Big East Tournament championship at Madison Square Garden that culminated in a 69-67 win over a Villanova team that weeks later would go on to capture the NCAA national championship. The Pirates shared the 2019-20 Big East regular season title with the Wildcats and Creighton in a season that ended prematurely in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the only coach in Seton Hall program history to post four consecutive 20-win seasons and is second on the program's all-time wins list.   "My family and I would like to thank the Villanova Board of Trustees, President Father Peter Donohue and Eric Roedl for this incredible opportunity," said William B. Finneran Endowed Head Men's Basketball Coach Kevin Willard. "Villanova Basketball has a deep tradition of excellence and a culture that is second to none in college basketball. We are thrilled to be a part of it and join the Villanova community." From 2010-22 Willard returned Seton Hall to its status as one of the premier programs in the BIG EAST.. He reached five NCAA Tournament appearances in the last six events that were played. He led the Pirates to the Big East Tournament Title in 2015-16 and the regular-season title in 2019-20. He was the 2016 Big East Coach of the Year and the 2020 USBWA District II Coach of the Year during those runs. Additionally, he was a three-time Peter A. Carlesimo Met Writers Coach of the Year (2016, 2017, 2019) and the 2019 NABC District 5 Coach of the year. He also has the most non-conference wins of any coach in the nation against Big Ten teams since 2014-15.    In addition to his coach of the year accolades, he was also named one of Forbes Top 10 NCAA Basketball Coaches for the Next 10 Years in 2017. His teams won the prestigious NABC Team Academic Excellence Award for five straight years (2016-20) and earned three NCAA Academic Progress Rate Public Recognition Awards.  In a six-year span from 2016-17 through 2021-22, he was one of 10 active head coaches in the Power 6 conferences to achieve a regular-season championship, a conference tournament championship, and a conference coach of the year honor. He also finished in the top-four in the Big East on six occasions. In 2018, he led the Pirates to their first victory in an NCAA Tournament since 2004.    Through his 12 seasons at Seton Hall, Willard produced a 225-161 overall record. He ranks second all-time in victories (225) in Seton Hall basketball history and has the most wins in conference play in program history (110). He is also the 11th all-time winningest coach in Big East history, dating to the conference's inception in 1979. The Pirates also had 82 combined wins between the Big East regular-season and postseason, second only to Villanova in the conference, since the 2015-16 season.  His teams at Seton Hall were ranked in the Top 25 in five of his last eight seasons with a high ranking of No. 8 in the 2019-20 season. In 2020-21 the Pirates were ranked as high as No. 15 and spent eight weeks in the polls.  Willard’s Seton Hall teams also posted an 11-5 record against Big Ten teams over his last eight seasons, which included wins over Maryland in 2018 and 2019. Willard's teams also won road games at Michigan, Iowa, Penn State and Rutgers and beat Indiana at home. Willard held the most non-conference wins over Big Ten teams of any coach since 2014-15.  In 2021-22, Willard led the Pirates to a 21-11 overall record and an 11-8 mark in conference play. That included wins over No. 4 Michigan and No. 7 Texas as part of six NET Quad 1 victories.  Willard coached the Big East Player of the Year in two of his last three years in Myles Powell (2020) and Sandro Mamukelashvili  (2021). He mentored two Big East Most Improved Players of the Year in Powell (2018) and Romaro Gill (2020). He coached the Big East Tournament MVP, Isaiah Whitehead (2016); the Big East Defensive Player of the Year, Fuquan Edwin (2014) and Gill (2020); the Big East Rookie of the Year, Angel Delgado (2015) and the Big East Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Michael Nzei (2019) and Ike Obiagu (2021).  Whitehead, Delgado, Powell and Mamukelashvili all earned All-American honors and Consensus First-Team All-Big East honors, and all in the last seven years. All four went on to play in the NBA with Powell playing for the Philadelphia 76ers this season and Mamukelashvili playing for the Milwaukee Bucks.  Powell was Seton Hall's first Consensus First-Team All-American since 1953. This past season, Jared Rhoden was named to the All-Big East First Team marking the sixth time in seven years that Willard coached a first-team all-conference honoree. Overall, he mentored 15 All-Big East selections and three Big East All-Rookie Team honorees.  Making a huge emphasis on effort in the classroom, Willard's student-athletes combined for 72 BIG EAST All-Academic team selections, and the program boasted a perfect single-year academic progress rate in six of the nine NCAA reports since he served as head coach as well as perfect multi-year APR scores in 2016 and 2017. The NCAA has also recognized Seton Hall with NCAA APR Public Recognition awards for boasting an APR in the top 10 percent in the country three consecutive years from 2015-17. The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) gave the program the Team Academic Excellence Award for five consecutive years from 2016-20 after finishing the academic year with a grade-point-average above 3.0.  Willard showed to be a strong evaluator and recruiter of talent, as he brought in a consensus top-15 national recruiting class in 2014, led by Whitehead, the program's first McDonald's All-American since 2001 and just the fifth all-time. His 2021-22 recruiting class was also rated in the top 25 by 247Sports.  The 2020-21 season marked Seton Hall and Willard's sixth consecutive top-four finish in the Big East Conference, one of the best basketball conferences in the country. Only Villanova also completed six straight top-four finishes in the same span.  Willard was named head coach of the Seton Hall men's basketball program on March 29, 2010. He became the 19th head coach in Seton Hall history joining the Pirates after three years serving as the head coach at Iona. In 2007, he had inherited a Gaels team that had won just two games the prior season. In his first year at the helm, the Gaels had a 10-win improvement, ranking as one of the top turnarounds in NCAA Div. I. Then in year three in 2009-10, Willard guided Iona to a 21-10 overall record, and he was named MAAC Coach of the Year. Prior to the start of his career as a head coach, Willard was an assistant and associate head coach for six years at Louisville, where he was mentored by Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Rick Pitino. Willard also credits his father, Ralph, as one of his coaching influences. Ralph Willard enjoyed a successful 19-year run as the head coach at Western Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Holy Cross, winning 336 games and advancing to six NCAA Tournaments. At Louisville, Willard was responsible for assisting with the Cardinals' game preparations, scouting and preparing game plans. He also served as chief recruiting coordinator. During his tenure, Louisville was ranked in the Top 25 for five seasons and reached the postseason in each of his six years. The squad reached the NCAA Tournament on four occasions including a visit to the 2005 Final Four, the first time in 19 years that the Cardinals had advanced that deep into the postseason. In his six seasons at Louisville, the Cardinals posted a phenomenal 142-58 record averaging nearly 24 wins per season. Prior to Louisville, Willard worked with Pitino as a coaching associate with the Boston Celtics for four years. His duties with the Celtics included game and practice preparation, scouting and assisting the coaching staff in all facets of basketball operations. He also provided advance scouting, videotape breakdowns and assisted with individual workouts prior to games. A basketball lifer, Willard played point guard on the Division I level for four years; the last three coming at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned Big East All-Academic honors while appearing in 60 games for the Panthers. He spent his freshman season at Western Kentucky, where he played in the backcourt and sank over 40 percent of his three-point field goal attempts. Willard hails from New York and was born in Huntington on Long Island, but played his high school basketball at Bowling Green High School (Ky.) while his father was the head coach at Western Kentucky. He earned second-team All-State honors as a senior and helped his team to a combined 76-15 record in his final three prep seasons. Willard is married to the former Julie Wagner and they have two sons, Colin, who was born in August 2006 and Chase born in June 2008.    

After serving on Kevin Willard’s Staff at the University of Maryland for three seasons – the last two as associate head coach - David Cox came to Villanova in May 2025 as part of Willard’s first staff with the Wildcats. The Wildcats went on to post a 24-9 record in 2025-26, earning the program's first NCAA Tournament invitation since 2021-22.   Cox is the former head coach at the University of Rhode Island (2018-22) and previously worked in the BIG EAST Conference as an assistant coach at Georgetown University (2007-10), Rutgers (2010-14), and Pittsburgh (2006-07). The Landover, Md., native has also coached both high school and AAU basketball in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia. Cox won 64 games as head coach of the Rams from 2018-22 and was one of 20 coaches included on HereSports.com’s list of candidates for National Coach of the Year in 2020. With a record of 13-5 in league play in the 2019-20 season, Cox tied for the third-most conference wins in a season in Rhode Island history. Fatts Russell earned Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference and All-Defensive Team honors, while senior Jeff Dowtin was a third team selection. Russell was a two-time All-Atlantic 10 selection under Cox and established himself as one of the best players in Rhode Island history. Russell is 13th in scoring all time with 1,594 points and holds the Rams program steals record with 213. Despite inheriting a team that had lost six seniors who went on to play professional basketball. Cox led Rhode Island to an 18-15 record, including a 9-9 mark in Atlantic 10 action in 2018-19. He was named as one of 12 national finalists for the 2019 Joe B. Hall Award, which is presented annually to the top first-year coach in Division I. The Rams advanced to the A-10 semifinals, upsetting top-seeded VCU in the quarterfinals. Cox was named as head coach in 2018 after four seasons as an assistant coach on Dan Hurley’s staff with URI. The final two of those seasons were spent as the team’s associate head coach. Cox joined the Rhode Island staff in May 2014 after spending the previous four seasons as an associate head coach at Rutgers. The Rams made two NCAA Tournament trips and one NIT appearance with Cox as an assistant coach, advancing to the second round all three times. Rhode Island also claimed the program’s first Atlantic 10 regular season title in 2018 and its second conference tournament title in 2017.  In November of 2017, Cox was ranked as the No. 23 assistant coach in the country by LockDraft.com. Over his first three seasons with the Rams, the team had gone 65-35 with a pair of postseason appearances. In 2016-17, Rhode Island made its first NCAA Championship appearance since 1999, upsetting Creighton in the opening round before falling just short against eventual Final Four participant Oregon in the second round. In Cox’ first season in Rhode Island, the Rams went to the 2015 NIT and made it to the second round. During his time at URI, Cox was instrumental in the recruitment of Indiana transfer Stanford Robinson, Jeff Dowtin, Michael Tertsea and Russell. He was the primary recruiter for the 2018 class, which was ranked as a Top-25 class nationally. While at Rutgers from 2010-14, Cox was the Scarlet Knights’ associate head coach, helping the program recruit the 15th-best class in 2011.  He served as the interim head coach for a three-game stint in December 2012, leading Rutgers to a 3-0 record. From 2007-10, Cox served as an assistant at Georgetown, helping to guide the Hoyas to a trio of post-season appearances.  In 2007-08, Georgetown compiled a 28-6 overall record en route to winning the Big East Championship and earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.  The 2009-10 Hoya squad also won 28 games and en route to an NCAA Tournament appearance.  Cox entered the college ranks as the director of basketball operations at Pittsburgh for the 2006-07 season and was part of the Panthers’ staff that went 29-8 and advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament. Cox first coached at the high school level at Archbishop Carroll in Washington, D.C. from 1996-99.  He spent the next seven years as an assistant principal at his alma mater, St. John’s Prep in Washington, D.C. from 1999-2006, where he oversaw the school’s athletic department, supervised all extra-curricular activities, and served as the school’s head of discipline. Cox began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the Washington D.C. Assault AAU program. He helped guide the team to the under-16 national championship in 2004. Several of his players earned college scholarships, including Tre Kelley (South Carolina), Chris McCray (Maryland), Michael Beasley (Kansas State/Miami Heat), Nolan Smith (Duke), Dante Cunningham (Villanova/Portland Trail Blazers), Arinze Onuaku (Syracuse) and Adrian Bowie (Maryland). A 1995 graduate of William & Mary with a degree in sociology, Cox was a four-year letter-winner and three-year starter at point guard for the Tribe for head coaches Chuck Swenson and Charlie Woollum. He finished his collegiate career with 670 points, 216 rebounds, 336 assists and a .352 3-point field goal percentage.  Cox still ranks among school leaders in several statistical categories, including 3-point field goals made (sixth, 137), total assists (eighth, 336); and 3-point field goal percentage (ninth, .352).  His career-high 12 assists against George Mason in 1995 still ranks third among all-time single-game performances in W&M basketball history. In 1996, Cox earned his master’s degree in education from William & Mary.  He and his wife Tasha have two children, Leila and Jacob. Cox' College Coaching Timeline 2006-07                University of Pittsburgh Director of Operations 2007-10                Assistant Coach, Georgetown University 2010-14                Assistant Coach, Rutgers University 2014-18                Assistant Coach, University of Rhode Island 2018-22                Head Coach, University of Rhode Island 2022-23                Assistant Coach, University of Maryland 2023-25                Associate Head Coach, University of Maryland 2025-present        Assistant Coach, Villanova University  

Kevin Norris accompanied head coach Kevin Willard to Villanova in 2025 and was part of a staff that guided the Wildcats to a 24-9 mark in 2025-26 and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021-22.   While at UCF, Norris helped the Knights to a 148-103 overall record and was a key figure in the program achieving its first-ever at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament in 2019.   Norris is a former BIG EAST All-Rookie Team selection as a guard at the University of Miami, where he played for coach Leonard Hamilton. He led the Hurricanes in assists during each of his four seasons in Coral Gables, Fla. (1995-98). During his senior season in 1998, he helped lead the Hurricanes to their first NCAA Tournament berth since 1960.   In addition to his time on the UCF staff, Norris also coached at USC (2013-16), FGCU (2011-13), UNC Wilmington (2010-11), and Texas A&M Corpus Christi (2008-10). He began his coaching career in 2007-08 at Tallahassee Community College. Along with Dawkins, Norris has served under Andy Enfield (USC/FGCU) and Buzz Peterson (UNC Wilmington).   Along with the NCAA Tournament berth, Norris also helped UCF reach the NIT three times (2016-17, semifinalists; 2022-23; 2023-24). Both the 2016-17 and 2018-19, saw UCF post 24 wins which totaled the fourth most in program history. This past season, UCF’s first in the Big 12, the Knights picked up ranked wins over No. 3 Kansas, No. 23 Oklahoma, and No. 23 Texas Tech.   During his time in Los Angeles with Enfield, Norris helped USC reach the NCAA Tournament in 2015-16 with the program’s first 20-win season since 2009.   Norris was also with Enfield for perhaps one of the most famous NCAA March Madness moments when FGCU burst onto the scene as “Dunk City” during the 2013 NCAA Tournament. The 15th-seeded Eagles, making their first tournament appearance in program history, shocked No. 2 seed Georgetown and then defeated No. 7 seed San Diego State to become the first-ever 15 seed to reach the Sweet Sixteen.   Norris began his coaching career at Tallahassee Community College in 2007-08, then spent two seasons (2008-10) as an assistant coach at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. He then assisted Peterson at UNC Wilmington during the 2010-11 season.   Following his collegiate career, Norris played professionally in Italy, France and the Czech Republic, as well as in the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the Calgary Drillers. Norris Coaching Career Timeline 2007-08                            Assistant Coach, Tallahassee Community College 2008-10                            Assistant Coach, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi 2010-11                            Assistant Coach, UNC Wilmington 2011-13                            Assistant Coach, Florida Gulf Coast 2013-16                            Assistant Coach, USC 2016-24                            Assistant Coach, UCF 2024-25                            Assistant Coach, University of Maryland 2025-present                    Assistant Coach, Villanova University    

Ashley Howard, who played a pivotal role in helping guide Villanova teams that won a pair of NCAA national championships in 2016 and 2018, rejoined the Wildcats as an Assistant Coach in May 2023. He completed his first season working for Head Coach Kevin Willard in 2025-26, helping to guide the Wildcats to a 24-9 overall recrod and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021-22.   A native of Philadelphia, Howard spent five seasons from 2013-18 working for Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Head Coach Jay Wright. In that span, Villanova earned four BIG EAST regular season titles, three BIG EAST Tournament crowns and posted an overall record of 165-21 (.887). Among the Wildcats Howard helped tutor were Ryan Arcidiacono, 2017 Julius Erving Award winner Josh Hart, 2018 Erving Award winner Mikal Bridges and 2018 National Player of the Year Jalen Brunson.   Following the 2017-18 season, Howard was named the Head Coach at La Salle University where he served four seasons. In 2019-20 the Explorers were building momentum, winning four of six against Atlantic 10 opponents and closed the regular season with a nine point win over rival Saint Joseph’s before the COVID-19 pandemic abruptly halted a 15-15 campaign. Prior to Villanova, Howard accrued a decade's worth of college coaching experience at three different stops. He began his coaching career as a student assistant coach at his alma mater, Drexel University, in 2002 after injury cut short his playing career for the Dragons. In 2004, following graduation, Howard was hired as an assistant coach at La Salle by Dr. John Giannini. He spent four years with the Explorers before returning to Drexel in 2008 as an assistant coach to James “Bruiser” Flint. He was part of a staff that led the Dragons to consecutive 20-win seasons, including a school record 29 victories in 2011-12. In 2012-13, Howard served as an assistant at Xavier University before landing back in the Delaware Valley at Villanova. Howard, who graduated from Drexel in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in communications, is the son of Maurice Howard and Diane Coleman. Maurice played college basketball at the University of Maryland and was a second round draft choice of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Ashley Howard starred at Monsignor Bonner High School in Lansdowne, Delaware County, where he scored 41 points in a game and averaged 23.8 points per game as a senior. He is married to Ariana Casanovas and has a daughter, Journey, and a son, Ace. Howard's College Coaching Timeline 2004-08                    Assistant Coach, La Salle University 2008-12                    Assistant Coach, Drexel University 2012-13                    Assistant Coach, Xavier University 2013-18                    Assistant Coach, Villanova University 2018-22                    Head Coach, La Salle University 2023-present            Assistant Coach, Villanova University

Greg Manning Jr. completed his first season at Villanova - and his fourth working for head coach Kevin Willard - in 2025-26, helping to steer the Wildcats to a 24-9 record and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021-22.   Manning Jr. previously was part of the staff that led Maryland to a 27-9 record in 2024-25, a second-place finish in the Big Ten and two victories in the NCAA Tournament.   In seven seasons with the Terps, Maryland positioned itself for five NCAA Tournaments (including 2019-20 which was cut short due to the pandemic).   In 2019-20, Manning was part of a staff that led Maryland to its first Big Ten Championship since joining the conference and was a lock for the NCAA Tournament before the season was cut short (no postseason) due to the coronavirus pandemic. In three other seasons, Manning helped the Terps reach the second round of the NCAA Tournament.   As video coordinator, Manning was charged with coordinating the internal video needs of the program, including advanced scouting, film, edits, and recruiting materials. Prior to Maryland, Manning served as an assistant coach under Jimmy Patsos at Siena beginning in 2013. Manning helped guide the Saints to the program’s first MAAC Championship Game appearance in seven years during the 2016-17 campaign. Siena won 13 of its final 19 contests to amass a 17-17 overall record and finish tied for third in the MAAC with a 12-8 league mark.   Manning played a key role in the development of four 1,000-point scorers in Brett Bisping, Lavon Long, Javion Ogunyemi, and Marquis Wright. Siena’s decorated senior class, which also included walk-on Jimmy Merrill, combined to finish with 5,787 career points, and the Saints were one of just two Division I programs along with National Champion North Carolina to feature four 1,000-point scorers on their 2016-17 roster. In 2015-16, Manning helped guide Siena to a 21-13 overall record and third-place finish in the conference with a 13-7 league mark as Siena advanced to the MAAC Semifinals. The 21 wins marked the program’s most in six years as the Saints posted a 10-win improvement from the previous season, which was tied for the 12th best nationally, and earned the program’s second College Basketball Invitational appearance in three years. In his first season, Manning helped Patsos orchestrate a 12-win improvement which was tied for the second best in all of Division I. Siena won 20 games and earned a berth to the College Basketball Invitational, which the Saints captured by taking the best-of-three series against Fresno State to earn the program’s first Division I national postseason tournament championship.   Manning was an integral part of the revival of Loyola basketball under Patsos, a process that began during his playing career from 2004-08. The Greyhounds went 52-40 in Manning’s last three years in the Green and Grey after posting just seven victories in the previous two seasons combined.   As a member of the coaching staff, Manning helped complete the transformation as the program took off. The Greyhounds went 47-21 the last two seasons, reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 18 years in 2012, and advancing to the quarterfinals of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament in 2013.   Manning’s father Greg Sr. played four seasons at Maryland under Lefty Driesell from 1977-81.   Manning coached an 11-player team of top college players against international competition in Belgium and Germany in the summer of 2012. In the summer of 2014 he again took a team of college all-stars that included Siena’s Lavon Long and Javion Ogunyemi on a European tour of Belgium, England and France, and in the summer of 2015 he brought a team to Croatia.   A native of Alpharetta, Ga., Manning graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications/public relations from Loyola in 2008. He spent the summer following graduation attending camps across the country, including the Eastern Invitational in New Jersey and the camps at the University of Maryland and West Virginia University, before joining the Greyhounds’ staff full-time. Greg and his wife Katelyn welcomed their first child in August 2025, son Oliver Lynn Manning. Manning Jr. College Coaching Timeline 2008-13:             Assistant Coach, Loyola (MD), 2013-18:             Assistant Coach, Siena 2018-21:             Video Coordinator, Maryland 2021-23:             Director of Basketball Operations, Maryland 2023-25:             Assistant Coach, Maryland 2025-present:     Assistant Coach, Villanova University        

Ricky Harris, a former University of Massachusetts standout and part of Kevin Willard’s staff at Maryland, completed his first season at Villanova as an assistant coach in 2025-26, helping guide the Wildcats to a 24-9 record and the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2021-22.   Harris joined the Terps after spending the previous two seasons as the Director of Operations at his alma mater. Prior to that, he played 11 professional seasons overseas in Lithuania, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, Turkey, and Argentina.   A 2010 graduate of UMass, Harris was one of the most prolific scorers in program history and led the Minutemen to a 73-58 record during his four-year career highlighted by a pair of NIT appearances.   The former standout at Baltimore’s Calvert Hall College High School played in 129 career games at UMass finishing third all-time in scoring with 1,960 points. He ranks second for single-season three pointers made (104, 2007-08) and is tied for the single-game record for threes in a game (8 on Mar. 3, 2010).  In 2008-09, he averaged 18.2 points per game and hit 37 percent from deep to be named the Atlantic 10 Most Improved Player. He earned NIT All-Tournament Team honors after averaging 20.4 points in five games including 27 points in the championship game against Ohio State.    He finished his career as a two-time All-Atlantic 10 Third Team selection averaging 18 points and 19.8 points during his junior and senior campaigns, respectively.   Before UMass, Harris played a prep season at The Winchendon School in Massachusetts following a standout career at Calvert Hall. There he finished as the school's third all-time leading scorer. He was the Baltimore Catholic League Co-Player of the Year in 2005 after averaging 23 points and six rebounds. Harris College Coaching Timeline 2021-23                        Director of Operations, University of Massachusetts 2023-25                        Director of Player Personnel, University of Maryland 2025-present                Assistant Coach, Villanova University    

Brenton Petty was named Villanova’s Director of Player Personnel after serving on the Maryland staff from 2021-25.   A native of Washington, D.C., Petty served as a graduate manager for Maryland from 2018-20 and before becoming a basketball operations assistant for the Detroit Pistons during the 2020-21 season.   Petty assumed a multitude of responsibilities in the Motor City, being directly involved with coordinating travel logistics for executives and scouts in addition to creating and maintaining prospect lists for the scouting department. He was also responsible for scouting coverage of seven men’s basketball conferences.   While a graduate manager at the University of Maryland from 2018-20, Petty managed daily player development and was heavily involved in developing codes to stat every practice. He also compiled opponent personnel clips for scouting reports and assisted with recruiting materials for prospective student-athletes. In 2024-25 he served as Director of Player Development/Assistant Coach as the Terrapins put together a 27 win season on their way to the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16,   Petty played collegiately at Fordham University from 2015-18 and graduated with a degree in communications. He earned his master’s degree from Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business in 2020.  

Charlie Butler, who served Kevin Willard as the Director of Basketball Operations for two seasons at Maryland, joined the Villanova Basketball staff in April 2025 in a similar capacity. Butler came to the Terrapins in 2022-23 to serve as the Coordinator of Basketball Operations.   Butler began working with Willard as a student manager at Seton Hall (2011-15). He spent six seasons on Willard's staff at Seton Hall as the Coordinator of Basketball Operations for the Pirates, a position he was appointed to in July 2017. Prior to this promotion, Butler spent two years as the video coordinator at the Hall. Butler’s responsibilities for the Pirates included gameday film preparation, filming practices and managing the team’s equipment. He was a part of Seton Hall's revival, serving on staff for back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2016 and 2017 and the 2016 BIG EAST Championship title victory.   Butler was an integral part of the Pirates as a team manager. His outstanding effort led to earning the title of head manager his senior year in 2014-15.   A native of Annapolis, Md., and graduate of Annapolis High School, Butler earned his bachelor’s degree in graphic design and business administration from Seton Hall in May 2015. He then earned his Master of Strategic Communication at Seton Hall in May 2017.  

Marie Schauder joined the men's basketball program in January 2022 after serving in the university's residence life department since 1987. A native of Newark, Del., Schauder was named Assistant Director of Training and Development on July 1, 1987. In 1995, she was named the Assistant Director for Housing Services, a role she held until 2014. From 2015-18, she held the role of Associate Director of Housing Services and Resident Operations before being named Director of Housing Services. Schauder and her husband Joe make their home in Gilbertsville. They have a son Keith, a daughter-in-law Julia, a granddaughter Adeline and daughter Krista.